League Tables: Confusion?

January 29, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

There is a lot of excitement in the educational world today because the new league tables published are not following the previous format and are judging outcomes in a revised methodology and to new standards. The change is designed to demonstrate more reliably how well a school is providing its students with the kind of education […]

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January 29, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

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Is Labour Losing?

January 28, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

To answer that question we need to ask are the Tories winning? The answer to that is that they do not have to. Their realistic aim is not to lose. If they hold what they have, Cameron will still be Prime Minister although the make-up of his government may be different. He may have to do a […]

Euro Troubles: Is Germany To Blame?

January 27, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

In part yes, but yes is too simple an answer. In order to gain French support for unification of the two halves of Germany (the French were very nervous and others including the Brits were none too keen) Germany agreed to the French idea of a single currency and an EU constitution. The constitution failed to […]

Greece: Now the Euro Reckoning.

January 26, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The Greek election outcome is as realists predicted and much worse than the bankers in Frankfurt hoped for. It also makes manifest the oldest rule of all, regularly forgotten in time of plenty by the minority to whom the majority of the plenty flows. It is this. There is a social limit to economic policy and that limit has been […]

Euro Billions

January 23, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

There has been very little commentary on this rather historic decision by the ECB to pump a trillion plus of new money into the Eurozone. It will make a difference but it may well inflate assets and make the rich richer, without finding its way into the base of the euro economy where it is […]

Greece To Decide

January 22, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

On Sunday Greeks will go to the polls to elect a new government. Generally Greece is thought to be the basket case of the Eurozone with borrowing out of control, whilst reluctant to reorganise its economy to be more productive so that it can pay down its debts and improve its living standards. Such is […]